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ia universitatisAn Update On The Data About The Late Neolithic
9 And Eneolithic In Friuli

Paola Visentini, Museo Archeologico, Civici Musei di Udine, Udine

V zadnjih letih so nam ponovno preučevanje starih najdb, nekaj slučajnih odkritij in nedavna izkopavanja
omogočili prenovljen vpogled v najmlajše faze neolitika in eneolitika v Furlaniji. Obsežni podatki, ki so nam
na voljo, nam za enkrat še ne omogočajo, da bi predstavili celovito sliko, vendar prikazujejo obsežno obmo-
čje poselitve, ki ga v poznem neolitiku zaznamujejo padanski kulturni vplivi, medtem ko se v času eneolitika
pojavijo značilni znaki povezav s čez alpskim in še posebej z balkanskim svetom.
Ključne besede: pozni neolitik, eneolitik, naselbinska tipologija, keramika, industrija kamnitih odbitkov-
nih orodij, industrija glajenih orodij, kovinske najdbe, poselitev, kulturni vplivi

In the last years, the re-examination of old finds, some casual discoveries and recent excavation works

allowed us to update our knowledge on the latest phases of the Neolithic and Eneolithic in Friuli. The

increasing data at our disposal do not allow to present an organic picture yet, but it depicts a vast occu-

pation area characterised during the Late Neolithic by a Padan cultural influence, whilst during the

Eneolithic significant signs of connections with the transalpine and especially the Balkan worlds have

emerged.

Keywords: Late Neolithic, Eneolithic, settlement typologies, pottery, chipped lithic industry, polished
lithic industry, metal artefacts, occupation, cultural influences
In the last years, the re-examination of old
finds, some casual discoveries and recent are data available for the last phases of the Eneo-
excavation works allowed us to update our lithic from the fortified site at Meduno-Sach di
Sotto, located in the north-western part of the
knowledge on the latest phases of the Neolith- region (Visentini et al. 2015).
ic and Eneolithic in Friuli (Tasca and Visenti-
ni 2010; Borgna et al. 2011; Visentini et al. 2015; The Last Phases Of The Neolithic
Visentini 2018). The distribution of the finds Overall, the region has presented many evidenc-
demonstrate that funerary evidences are al- es attributable to the last phases of the Neolith-
most completely absent while settlements were ic, but they mainly are finds with scarce lithic
limited, for now, to the high plain and pied- and/or ceramic materials attributable to that pe-
mont areas, even though the numerous finds riod and usually not coming from stratigraphic
discovered out of context had a much wider excavations, as is the case of Molin Nuovo (Fra-
diffusion on the territory. giacomo and Pessina 1995) and Gramogliano
At present, the data on the Late Neolith- (Bastiani et al. 1997) in the province of Udine,
ic environmental and palaeoeconomical aspects and San Tomé di Dardago in the province of
(Micheli in press) are being studied, whilst there Pordenone (Pettarin et al. 1997). As for Trieste’s

doi: https://doi.org/10.26493/2350-5443.6(1)9-32
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